Parse bytea output format ourselves instead of using the libpq

PG 9.0 uses the hex format by default, and clients < 9.0 can't parse that
format, requiring client update and great care in what is linked at runtime,
and generally giving headache to users and transitively us.

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/tests/testutils.py b/tests/testutils.py
index 2459894..26551d4 100644
--- a/tests/testutils.py
+++ b/tests/testutils.py
@@ -140,24 +140,6 @@ def skip_if_no_namedtuple(f):
     return skip_if_no_namedtuple_
 
 
-def skip_if_broken_hex_binary(f):
-    """Decorator to detect libpq < 9.0 unable to parse bytea in hex format"""
-    def cope_with_hex_binary_(self):
-        from psycopg2 import InterfaceError
-        try:
-            return f(self)
-        except InterfaceError, e:
-            if '9.0' in str(e) and self.conn.server_version >= 90000:
-                return self.skipTest(
-                    # FIXME: we are only assuming the libpq is older here,
-                    # but we don't have a reliable way to detect the libpq
-                    # version, not pre-9 at least.
-                    "bytea broken with server >= 9.0, libpq < 9")
-            else:
-                raise
-
-    return cope_with_hex_binary_
-
 def skip_if_no_iobase(f):
     """Skip a test if io.TextIOBase is not available."""
     def skip_if_no_iobase_(self):